A woman was arrested here today on the charge of killing her lover in Kenabhedra forest in Sundergarh district of Odisha, police said today.

The body of Sanjeeb Dandsena of Bandhapalli village under the Sundergarh police station was found in the jungle on June four and remained unidentified for four days. However, the police could trace the woman this morning.

The woman, in her twenties, during interrogation confessed to have committed the crime and revealed that she had killed Sanjeeb with a knife as his family was planning to get him married off to another woman.

She was produced before cour which remanded her in jail custody.

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